Bill Toulas reports: The Dutch Police (Politie) dismantled the ZServers/XHost bulletproof hosting operation after taking offline 127 servers used by the illegal platform. Earlier this week, the authorities in the United States, Australia, and the United Kingdom, announced sanctions against the same bulletproof hosting provider for its involvement in cybercrime operations. Specifically, the operators of Zservers were accused of…
Category: Malware
Phobos Ransomware Affiliates Arrested in Coordinated International Disruption
More details have emerged on individuals arrested in conjunction with Phobos ransomware and the seizure of 8Base sites. From the U.S. Attorney’s Office, District of Maryland: The Justice Department today unsealed criminal charges against Roman Berezhnoy, 33, and Egor Nikolaevich Glebov, 39, both Russian nationals, who allegedly operated a cybercrime group using the Phobos ransomware that victimized…
Police arrests 4 Phobos ransomware suspects, seizes 8Base sites
Bill Toulas reports: A global law enforcement operation targeting the Phobos ransomware gang has led to the arrest of four suspected hackers in Phuket, Thailand, and the seizure of 8Base’s dark web sites. The suspects are accused of conducting cyberattacks on over 1,000 victims worldwide. The arrested individuals, two men and two women, are Europeans…
Cyberattack on NHS causes hospitals to miss cancer care targets
Connor Jones reports: NHS execs admit that last year’s cyberattack on hospitals in Wirral, northwest England, continues to “significantly” impact waiting times for cancer treatments, and suspect this will last for “months.” During the attack, which began on November 25 2024, the main clinical system was pulled offline and by December 5 the teams were…
Cover-up Follow-up: Westend Dental starts notifying patients of October 2020 ransomware attack
In December, DataBreaches reported that the Indiana Attorney General’s Office had brought charges against Westend Dental for a number of HIPAA violations. The state had started investigating the dental practice after a patient complained about them not providing a copy of their records in response to a request. In looking into that complaint, the state…
Almost one year later, NorthBay Health notifies 569,012 people of breach of sensitive information
While some states are decreasing the amount of time entities have to notify the state or individuals of a breach, the reality is that many entities are nowhere near complying with even more lenient deadlines. HIPAA, for example, allows entities no more than 60 calendar days from discovery of a breach (the first day they…